
Zhang Zian was busy the whole day and now it was almost time for him to go to bed. 
Zhang Zian had been exhausted throughout the day, but now that he knew the elves' lives could be extended, his tiredness vanished completely. However, he hadn't told the news to Old Time Tea or the other elves yet. As Pi had said, it wasn't the right time. If he hastily told the news to everyone, they would be too expectful. The reality might be too disappointing. For that reason, they might as well not know about it in the first place. 
Even if the lifetime of the elves really could be extended infinitely, the elves had to go through an extremely difficult process to do so. Judging from Pi's stern expression as it read the untitled book, Zhang Zian figured that this may be his biggest challenge and trial since he downloaded the Pet Hunter game.
Although he couldn't understand the untitled book, whether it was the Hyperwebster Dictionary, The Book of Sand, or a fantasy book from another civilization in the universe, he was still very grateful for it. Without it, he wouldn't have found out about such reassuring and hopeful news.
The elves had fallen asleep, one after the other. Before going to sleep, Richard had been very active that night, as if everything put him in a good mood. Zhang Zian had to hang it upside down to calm it down. 
When everyone was in bed, Pi was still sitting in front of the computer, typing away.
"Pi, did the noise bother you?" Zhang Zian came over and asked. He knew how annoying Richard and Snowy Lionet were.
Pi shook its head no.
"Well, we're all going to bed now. Please go to sleep as soon as you finish writing." Zhang Zian brought over a small desk lamp. The lamp light was turned away from the bedroom, so it wouldn't affect anyone's sleeping.
He didn't plan on telling Pi what he was doing later, because he wasn't sure whether he would be successful or not. He didn't want Pi to be disappointed after giving it so much hope. 
Pi grinned and nodded.
Zhang Zian glanced at the elves again. After confirming that each elfin was in its correct place, he turned off the ceiling light. 
With the light from the desk lamp and his own nightlight, he laid on his bed and stared at the ceiling, listening to Pi type. He thought about the elves' lives for a while, and then thought about the situation of Uncle Li's diner. He tried to allow all of his thoughts to occupy his mind and keep himself from falling asleep.
About an hour later he heard a click, and the fan noise from the laptop disappeared. Pi turned off the desk lamp and the room grew darker. It climbed into the basket hammock chair to go to sleep.
Zhang Zian kept his eyes open for a while, and almost fell asleep. He pinched his thighs to keep himself awake. 
He looked up and guessed that Pi had already fallen asleep. Then, he grabbed his cell phone by his pillow and opened the Qidian app.
That day, as he watched Pi write, he had secretly browsed the Internet on his cell phone, trying to find out what the amazing reading lists were.
After he finished researching, he knew that reading lists were an important supplement to the Official Recommendation Spots from the Qidian website. A reading list was created by an individual, who would list his or her favorite books and the reasons why they would recommended those books on their list. If other readers agreed with the owner's suggestions, they would start following the creator of the list. The reading list owners were similar to bloggers who reviewed digital products on video websites, and the digital products recommended by bloggers tended to receive more attention. Some reading list owners even had tens of thousands of followers. 
After careful searching, Zhang Zian discovered that the reading list owners were roughly divided into two categories. One type introduced and reviewed each book in great length, while the other kind of reading list owners introduced each book with only one sentence. The former type attracted much more followers than the latter. After all, through the detailed evaluations and introductions, the readers could tell that the reading list owners had put in a lot of work into every book. 
That day, he had mentally noted the reading list owners' IDs who wrote long book reviews and then went to the comment sections of their lists. He first ruled out the most popular reading list owners, because in their comment sections, numerous authors or authors who pretended to be readers were promoting their own books. Those reading list owners wouldn't be able to read all the books being recommended to them, even if they tried to read 24 hours a day.
As for the reading list owners that attracted fewer followers, their comment sections were basically empty. It wouldn't be helpful for Zhang Zian to advertise Pi's novel in those lists. 
After more research, he targeted a reading list owner who had the tenth most followers. The ID name of the reading list owner was Morning Gorilla Star, who was mentioned by the author of Diplomats of the Underworld. 
Morning Gorilla Star had written down his requirements about posting advertisements in his comment: Do not copy and paste your ads. I will promote urban novels that have no or only one female protagonist.
Zhang Zian felt relieved when he read these requirements. He was extremely popular with women, and many cute girls were desperately hoping to be his girlfriend. Pi had just hidden this fact while writing the novel based on the life in Zhang Zian's pet shop. Therefore, Pi's novel had managed to meet Morning Gorilla Star's requirements.
Advertising was like sending resumes to hiring managers. The key points of the novel must be written as concisely as possible. What was the highlight of Pi's novel? It certainly wasn't that the protagonist didn't have a girlfriend! 
He typed on his phone: Can I promote my own book? The title of the book is Pet King. The protagonist, who is the owner of a pet shop, downloads a game that can capture elves. Together with the elves, he witnesses the growth of the pet shop. There is no female protagonist in this book. 
He thought it over and added "Currently" in front of the sentence, "There is no female protagonist in this book." Then, he satisfyingly clicked the "Send" button.
After sending the message, Zhang Zian repeatedly refreshed the comment section and anxiously waited for a reply from the reading list owner, just like a job seeker who was constantly refreshing emails and nervously waiting for replies after sending out his resume. Zhang Zian had read the books recommended by Morning Gorilla Star, and all the books were well-written. Perhaps Morning Gorilla Star wouldn't think Pi's novel was good enough. However, Zhang Zian hoped that Morning Gorilla Star, who had read countless books, could at least tell him why Pi's novel failed to be recommended by him. In that case, Zhang Zian could help Pi revise the novel. Zhang Zian was acting like a job seeker who was close to starving to death and desperately needed a job, whatever the job was, to feed himself.
Since it was nearly one o'clock in the morning, the owner had probably gone to bed already. Watching his comment drowning in other comments from authors promoting their own books, Zhang Zian couldn't help but sigh in dismay.
Perhaps he sighed too loud, because Zhang Zian heard a squeaking sound come from the hammock chair. It sounded like Pi had turned over.
He locked his phone screen and waited a little longer. He didn't unlock his phone until there wasn't any more sounds coming from the chair.
What should he do?
He was very sleepy. Should he wait till the reading list owner woke up and try advertising again? 
No, he shouldn't wait. Tomorrow, Pi would receive its first Minor Recommendation Spot. If its novel failed to be ranked in the top three or top four spots, it might never have a chance to receive a recommendation again.
With that thought, he decided to advertise on another reading list. Advertising was just like begging, and as long as he could swallow his pride now, he would gradually become thick-skinned. 
This time, he lowered his expectations by moving his attention from the reading list owners with tens of thousands of followers to ones with hundreds of followers, hoping that some of them hadn't fallen asleep yet.
Zhang Zian noticed that there was one whose ID was Yang Chenkong. In his reading list, Yang Chenkong wrote reviews with thousands of words for each book and offered many thoughtful insights. However, Yang Chenkong only had a mere 3,000 followers. Would it really be useful to advertise in this list?
Zhang Zian desperately went to the comment section. To his surprise, he saw that this reading list owner was still online, discussing his opinions with his friends about a certain book. 
Zhang Zian hadn't read the book that they were talking about. However, from reading their conversation, Zhang Zian felt as if he had read it and learned about its successes and failures. From observing, Zhang Zian could tell that Yang Chenkong was very professional. 
For some reason, the comment section of his reading list was blank and had no advertisements. Zhang Zian chuckled to himself. He could take advantage of this rare opportunity to advertise. 
There were some basic rules of advertising for all reading lists. Unlike like people who put advertisements in bathrooms,  book-promoting advertisements couldn't be randomly posted. Each reading list owner had different requirements for advertisements. For example, Morning Gorilla Star had explicitly stated that he would only recommend novels with no or one female protagonist. Yang Chenkong, however, had a wide range of book choices. Except for supernatural novels, Yang Chenkong basically read every genre. 
However, the most difficult thing was that the list owner didn't specify which book genres he would recommend, and Zhang Zian didn't know how to cater to his preferences. After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Zian rewrote the message that he had sent to Morning Gorilla Star. He deleted the sentence "Currently, there is no female protagonist in this book." He added, "Feel free to read the sample chapters, but don't blame me if you're poisoned (Translator's Note: Read and Poison sound the same in Chinese)," hoping that his self-deprecating tone would draw Yang Chenkong's attention. 
After clicking "Send", he was too tired to repeatedly refresh the comment section as he did before. It was almost half past one in the morning, and he would need to get up early that day.
Putting down his cell phone, Zhang Zian lay down flat on the bed. Soon, he was half-awake and half-asleep, and he would completely fall asleep at any moment. 
In the darkness, Pi had been watching him the whole time. It had barely moved, except to slightly change its posture after its legs started to get numb.
Pi had always known about Zhang Zian's actions. It could tell from Zhang Zian's exhaustion. 
Since Zhang Zian was so tired, it wouldn't matter if he did these things later, right?
Pi opened its mouth and silently imitated the shape of someone saying "thank you."
What?
Zhang Zian thought he heard something. It seemed like someone was talking to him. He barely could open his eyes. His drowsiness was as heavy as a mountain, pressing down on his eyelids.
He looked around and found nothing out of the ordinary. He unlocked his phone screen and saw that it was past two in the morning. 
Since he hadn't logged out from the Qidian app yet, he clicked open Yang Chenkong's comment section, the second reading list owner he advertised on that night, hoping to find Yang Chenkong's review on Pi's novel. However, he found no review, and saw that the advertisement he had posted was gone.
No wonder the comment section was so empty. As it turned out, Yang Chenkong deleted all of the advertisements in his comment section. Zhang Zian's efforts were again all in vain. 
He couldn't keep his eyes open anymore. He shoved his cell phone under his pillow and fell asleep.


1. Download a suspicious game
2. Catch a few magical pets as partners
3. Go through interesting daily routines and lead the pet shop to a whole new level

When Jaana, Levin, and Falmir were spending time downstairs. Elvire was wide awake in her mind.
The book that was merged with the black ball was slowly opening up and revealing some of its secrets to Elvire.
Elvire's head was hurting, and even when she spiritually imagined inside her head, it seemed like the whole world was spinning around her. The fast amount of information that she was suddenly getting was too much still for her brains, and her brains were trying to protect her.
So no, it was a human mind vs. a book full of information, and Elvire was in the middle of it all.
Her mind slowly gave up and realized the book wasn't dangerous and would be beneficial to it, so it slowly started to accept the book's information and started to process it.
Slowly the book started to put it's secrets to Elvire, and slowly it opened up for Elvire.
'The book of information.'
"This book has most of these skills, arts, and crafts in the world, but you can only choose one main skill and a couple supportive skills. So please choose carefully as when you choose them you cannot choose again after that. So regardless of how much you will regret your choices, you cannot undo them after it, and this book will disappear after it." When Elvire heard this in her mind, she wondered what her luck was with the book, but when she proceeded that she could only choose a couple and couldn't undo them.
She started to panic as she didn't even know any supportive arts at all. So how could she choose them at all? When she didn't even know them at all! Was this just a big scam! That would make people fail their lives horribly! 
These questions were screaming inside Elvire's mind and messing her up constantly.
A voice suddenly said inside Elvire's head, "Do you take this holy book not seriously, of course, I will show you all the class options you an idiot or how did you think you would otherwise know them." Elvire was a little shocked by the sudden voice but couldn't react to it before the book started to list the options to Elvire.
Priest,alchemists,healer,medic,oracle,cleric,druid,bard,monk,paladin,historian,guide…
The list continued and continued without even stopping for a moment, but one thing that was common with the skills was that they were more focused on supportive arts or in holy powers.
Elvire started to think about all of her options carefully as she remembers that she couldn't use most of the combat skills, so she did cut off most of the combat-oriented skills and classes from the list and saw what was left and started to look at them for now.
Suddenly there was one class that stuck around Elvire's eyes that would be perfectly suited for her or so she did think. If she couldn't use combat arts, why wouldn't she let others do it then? She asked from herself and did select a summoner from the list.
"Summoner= Branch of mages that can summon a spirit or an animal to aid you in combat or everyday life. They are generally weak and cannot use close combat arts, or they cannot even use most of the magic either, so their power mostly depends on their summoned friend." The book started to list up the information about the summoner for Elvire, and she was more and more convinced that this was the class for her.
She selected the class, and the book still wanted to confirm she would want to take up the summoner as her main class for now on, and Elvire did confirm it, and suddenly there was a change in Elvire, and the book said.
"Congratulations on awakening the summoner class. I hope that you are happy with your choices as I remember no refunds at all. But now, let's move on, you can choose two additional abilities, so think carefully."
Elvire started to look up the list and tried to remember some abilities that she was aware of when she suddenly thought that she already had the advantage for persuading and talking to people. Why wouldn't she choose something related to those then also to make them all work together?
"Diplomat= a person who relies more on the spoken and written language to persuade others to support him or her and do what she would like." 
Elvire was happy with this and went the same process over again then with the summoner and confirmed that she did want the diplomat ability.
"Now, let's move on to your final choice." The book said and started to list all the different options for Elvire again.
Elvire started to scroll the list again and again without finding anything she would like, or that felt that she would need, but when she finally was giving up, she just randomly did point at something in the list, and it was a traveling merchant.
"Traveling merchant= a person who likes to see the world around him or her without actually thinking how much he or she would earn, as the point of it all is an adventure and making money to survive in between everything else. They like to go to all the deepest and poorest villages just to see the world and change items with villagers without caring about the quality as long as their customers are happy and get what they need."
Elvire was fascinated by what this skill could bring up to her and where it would affect and confirmed that she would like to get the skill. When she was finally done, the book suddenly disappeared and said, "You were chosen today and extremely lucky, but remember our policy no refunds at all. So you made the choices, and you live with them. Oh, right, we didn't mention it. You might get to choose another ability, but it depends on you can you use them, as we don't teach them we just show the different options. So good luck to learning them and getting better at them, as we just cannot give you an ability and make you already good at it."
The book completely vanished before Elvire could even scream inside of her mind that this all was just a big scam.
The book just showed and gave abilities to Elvire, but she would need to learn and awake them first before she could use them. So Elvire felt like scammed and didn't understand why it was like this, as she was so happily waiting forwards to amaze her parents and summoning her first companion, but it all was flushed down from the drain now, and she would need to start from the scratch like everyone else.


A world where the gods ruled human lives. The highest form of existence that was worshipped in all possible way. 

The more humans sing praises or offer prayers and the more these gods became supreme. In return, gods bless humans with protection, power, prosperity, and life. 

However, some gods were forgotten completely, causing their very existence to also vanish from the world. All their statues, city and temples were washed away by time, abandoned by their once loyal believers. 

The struggle to continue existing begin even for gods and wars between them started. 

Goal? To rule the world and all its living humans. 

So what can humans get when they followed a god that could win the war in the end? Immortality. 

Even kings or queen desired a never-ending life, allowing even the church to rule above them because of it. 

But this story is about a girl who received a holy command and started to travel and spread her own goddess name. A goddess that blesses death...

If you want to join the discord server here is the link.
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Su Mo left the Four Seas Fighting Ring and headed back to the Luo Mansion.
They gathered at a pavilion in Luo Mansion after they were back.
"Brother Su Mo, it won't be long before your splendid record of 151 victories in the Four Seas Fighting Ring spread to every corner of the Skymoon Country!"
Luo Huan gave an alluring smile and said, "By then, you'll be renowned throughout Skymoon, and everyone will be discussing about you."
A lovely smile danced on her lips and her eyes blazed with complicated feelings.
When they were in Sunnywood City, she had recommended Su Mo to join the Gale Island on the spur of the moment. However, she never expected Su Mo to make such great progress in only one year.
"A fame is just a title. It means nothing compared with the great reward."
Su Mo grinned.
Luo Qianfan, on the contrary, was full of concern. He warned seriously, "Su Mo, your reward was extremely shocking. I reckon there'll be envious people coming after you!"
Su Mo's brows furrowed with concern. This was indeed a serious trouble.
After all, such a great reward was compellingly attractive. Now that the news had spread across the entire city, it was highly possible that many people would surrender to their greed.
Su Mo sighed. "Is there really no better ways than contacting Elder Wei?"
Moreover, it was unlikely to reach him in a short period of time because of the long distance between the Imperial City and Gale Island.
Seeing Su Mo's grim expression, Luo Qianfan said, "No one dares to touch you if you stay at my mansion after receiving the reward, but I can't guarantee your safety once you leave here."
Su Mo nodded. Luo Mansion was very powerful in the Imperial City. Not many people dared to offend it.
"I'll make the decision when I get the reward three days later," Su Mo said in a low voice.
He knew that he was not going to stay in this city and live in this mansion forever.
"Okay!"
Luo Qianfan nodded.
They continued to chat for a while before they parted and left the pavilion.
Su Mo went out again and headed for the Sky-sea Pavilion.
He planned to buy some resources for cultivation with his leftover Spiritual Stones.
Su Mo was not afraid of being robbed, since he had not received the thumping reward yet.
He soon arrived at the magnificent Sky-sea Pavilion.
There were many small stores in Sky-sea Pavilion. All merchandise was displayed according to their categories and sold in the respective stores.
Su Mo first visited the elixir store, where he bought a bottle of Curse-breaking Pill that cost him 1,000 Lower Spiritual Stones.
Curse-breaking Pill was an Upper Lv 2 Pill that helped to breach the bottleneck of each realm.
Although it was far less effective than the Realm-breaking Pill sold at auctions, it was also very precious.
Su Mo had reached the tipping point between the Lv 5 and the Lv 6 Spiritual Martial Realm, which meant that he was a step away from Lv 6.
He had intended to breach the bottleneck in these few days.
Su Mo entered the Beast Soul store after he left the elixir store. He spent 2,000 Lower Spiritual Stones on 20 Class 9 Lv 2 Beast Soul Crystals.
The crystals were expensive. He could only afford 20 pieces of them with 2,000 Lower Spiritual Stones.
The elixir and Soul Crystals had cost almost all of his Spiritual Stones in hand.
Su Mo was about to leave the Sky-sea Pavilion immediately after that.
"Huh?"
On his way out of the Pavilion, a store, which was bustling with people, had attracted his attention. He walked over curiously.
"Legend of Firmament, only 10 Lower Spiritual Stone each."
"Line up! We have adequate stock for every customer!"
There were a lot of people queuing up for a chunky book that was called Legend of Firmament.
It was inexpensive. Anyone who had 10 Lower Spiritual Stones could get one.
Giving in to curiosity, Su Mo joined the queue and soon he bought one for himself.
This was not an ordinary book. It had recorded a variety of celebrities' anecdotes, peculiar treasures, and the remote and deserted land on the Firmament and Continent.
Su Mo glanced through the book and put it away before he left the Sky-sea Pavilion.
Soon, he returned to the Luo Mansion.
Su Mo sat at the table in his room and then took out the Legend of Firmament.
The book had considerably aroused his interest. There was actually a book that could include all the things happening on the entire continent. How extraordinary!
It seemed that the Sky-sea Pavilion did not boast about having opened branches at as far as the edges of the world.
The first dozens of pages introduced thousands of species of peculiar wonders, exotic flowers and herbs, and magical demonic beasts.
After that, the book described about the distribution of supreme powers in the world.
Su Mo narrowed his eyes as he scanned this section.
"The Emperor Xuan Palace! That's where it is."
One of the nine superpowers in the world.
According to the Legend of Firmament, there were nine superpowers in the world, consisting of three long-standing families and six sects that originated from ancient sects.
The Emperor Xuan Palace was one of the six sects.
Besides, there were some demon powers comparable to the nine superpowers.
In addition, the continent also bred many powers that were second only to the nine superpowers.
Sky-sea Pavilion was one of them.
Each of them was more powerful than one could imagine. Legend of Firmament had detailed every power.
"Emperor Xuan Palace, whose roots reach back to tens of thousands of years ago, has dominated the Central Continent for a long time. It contains millions of disciples and its dominion extends to billions of miles of territory..."
Su Mo could not help sighing after he read the introduction. In his current state, he was completely insignificant as compared to the Emperor Xuan Palace and the rest of the nine superpowers.
However, that did not frustrate him, for he was very confident of his talent.
With enough time, he would grow into an expert that could evenly match with the Emperor Xuan Palace.
Su Mo reflected on it for a little while and moved his eyes back to the book.
The book went on with Talents List.
The Talents List, composed of three name lists, had included all the top young talents across the entire world.
They were List of Top 100 Talents, Top 1,000 Geniuses, and Top 10,000 Superiors, respectively.
All the lists had age restrictions. List of Top 100 Talents required contenders to be under 25 years old, and the other two lists 30 years old.
The List of Top 100 Talents had recorded the 100 best talents in each domain.
The List of Top 1,000 Geniuses had enumerated the 1,000 most formidable geniuses in every region of the continent.
The List of Top 10,000 Superiors had recorded 10,000 young superiors on the entire world.
The List of Top 100 Talents had many sublists that recorded the talents in every individual domain, though the book only took in the list that was made in the Hong Domain.
Su Mo carefully studied the names that belonged to the 100 best talents.
Only one of them was recognizable to him.
Yun Jiankong, ranked 98th!
Su Mo gasped. Yun Jiankong, the chief disciple of the Sky Rapier Sect and the best of the Four Talents of Skymoon Country, was only ranked 98th.
More surprisingly, the rest of the Four Talents of Skymoon Country, including Duan Jingtian, were not even included in the list.
Su Mo sighed, knowing that the List of Top 100 Talents must be highly critical of its contenders.
Even a genius like Duan Jingtian was not taken in!
Then Su Mo continued to scan the List of Top 1,000 Talents on East Continent and then moved to the List of 10,000 Superiors.
Suddenly, Su Mo's vision was fixated on a name, sparking with fierceness.
It was the name of a young superior that caught his attention.
Shangguan Hao!


Su Mo went from the pride of his clan to becoming the butt end of a joke in a matter of minutes. The former King of Mercenaries from Earth was reborn in the body of a boy in a foreign world and had used skills in his previous life to rise to the top among his peers, however, his previous training could only take him so far. The next step in this martial arts dominated world was to awaken one’s Martial Soul.
The awakening ceremony ends in disaster for Su Mo as he awoke a Martial Soul of the lowest level. Such a prodigy is now considered worse than useless as his Martial Soul is far too weak! After becoming the embarrassment of the clan, he discovers that his Martial Soul has a unique property: it could level up! This unique martial soul could shake the heavens. 
It was at this time that Su Mo meets the love of his life but the situation quickly deteriorates when she is taken by one of the most powerful forces in the world. Su Mo must rise from the lowest of the low and reach the pinnacle of power in order to save the love of his live within five years or she will forever be out of his reach.


Her eyes are glaring at the bald man as the bald man slowly reach out and put his hand on the handle of his blade, ready to pull it out from the sheath the moment she moves
He is gathering momentum on his feet and his body. The moment she tried to do anything, a sword strike might end her life.
Sasha is now trying to think of other ways
In the six years that has passed since the absence of Death Monarch, the Shadow Guards stance on the ruler of Pandemonium has shifted.
Six years is a long time and Shadow Guards is a special existence in Pandemonium. 
They are not particularly liked by the Central government and the Three Army also don't like their secretive nature. There is only one reason why the Central Government and the Three Army tolerate and had to respect them. And that is because their backer.
And who is the backer of Shadow Guards? 
The true ruler of Pandemonium, Death Monarch. 
Outsider probably would not understand why the Shadow Guards had split into two and why even though there are remnants of the Shadow Guards in Pandemonium, it never shows any sign of serving Loki and the Central government or run to the Three Army for support.
No one outside Pandemonium and no one outside of the Shadow Guards would understand. 
It almost like every members of the Shadow Guards seems to be too prideful for their own goods
The Shadow Guards was not created to aid the future rulers of Pandemonium. That is not why they were formed. They were formed to aid Death Monarch to do things.
To search information for him, to be his blade that cut down his enemies, to protect his life from schemes and plots and assassination and any other kind of harm.
They were not created to rule Pandemonium, they were not created to kill and obliterate the enemies of Pandemonium or guard it from foreign enemies. 
They were created solely to serve as Death Monarch loyal servants
In the beginning, Azief himself could not have expected that his creation of the Shadow Guard would lead to such loyal force under him. 
Sasha was the one that created this tenet of remaining loyal to Death Monarch and nobody else. 
And Azief had approved it after Sasha convinced him the merit of having such a powerful military arm to mobilize.
And as such, even Azief himself has treated the Shadow Guards as an organization that should be loyal to him and only him.
If they could not even keep their loyalty to him, then when Death Monarch return why would he keep such people who could not do even a simple thing?
There is one paramount requirement for any Shadow Guards. They need to have this to be even eligible to remain in Shadow Guards.
Complete loyalty to Death Monarch. Once you are inducted into the Shadow Guard there is no out. Only Death will end your service. 
This is what Sasha told her recruits and it is also why the shadow Guards felt no belongings to the other forces in Pandemonium and why they possess such power and influence in Pandemonium that they could override any executive commands of the Central Government and even send a decree to the Three Army to follow.
Because no one doubts the loyalty of these Shadow Guards. Everyone knows how much Death Monarch trusted the Shadow Guards
Death Monarch would not care if he could not trust his officials or even if he could not trust his army but he would not accept that he could not even trust his own Shadow Guards.
As such, they were also given some special privileges that have earn them the ire of the Central Government and the Three Army.
Some people thought that they have their own relations with Pandemonium but it is clear after six years of not returning to Pandemonium, many forces in the world now regarded Sasha and his band of Dark Blade Division of Shadow Guard had gone rogue, preferring only to execute mission that have been left by Death Monarch. 
They are outsiders so they don't understand the complex relationship between the Three Powers inside Pandemonium. 
These three powers are the Central Government, the Three Army and the Shadow Guards.
The unifying force of all these forces is Death Monarch. Now Death Monarch is not there, their unity is tested like never before. And Sasha and her band is only doing what Death Monarch ordered them to do.
Sasha gritted her teeth as she looks at the two people, looking at her like she is something to be sold later.
She could not make them understand. because these people are outsiders.
If the Central Government really could not stand Shadow Guards, they would not just ignore them. 
The trickster would have sent legions of hunters, mercenaries, assassins from the Dark Syndicate to kill them. 
But even the Trickster and the many officials that don't like the Shadow Guard did not do anything to them except ignoring them.
Why? 
Because they understand that all this conflict would end the moment Death Monarch returns. 
And when he returns and found out that the Central Government had oppressed his Shadow Guards, then those officials would probably all lose their heads.
As such, the least they could do is just ignore the Shadow Guards and let them do their own task while the Three Army and the Central Government do their job.
They are still spoken of in dread and fear but the band that Sasha had lead had no support from Pandemonium. 
And the Shadow Guard under Sasha all wear dark cloth and wears an armband of a nightingale bird on their arms, like they were separating itself into a different kind of organization than the one in Pandemonium headed by Shinji the Swift Sword.
The band that Sasha had lead are responsible for many assassinations of the Crime Alliance key figures and for six years they are the ones that walk among the dark side of the world, killing many influential figures that many people speculated come from a list that Death Monarch had written before his departure.
Rumors said that the list is written inside a book called the Book of Death. 
In the criminal world, these rumors persisted. 
The story goes that before Death Monarch decided to breakthrough, he had meet the leader of the Shadow Guards. 
He had given her a list of names that he spoke verbally and some that he had written inside a book that have all kinds of encryptions, codes and puzzles that needs to be solved before one could read it.
The solution to all the codes and puzzles inside the book could only be solved by Sasha the Nightingale because she was the one entrusted with the Book
The reason why the book had so many codes and puzzles to be solved to read it content is because inside that book, the list also includes many information about the operatives of the secret forces of the Seven Great Powers.
In other words, a list of spies
Many people in the world believe that story. 
Because to them Death Monarch was the one that created the idea of the Seven Great Powers. 
It would then make sense that he as the strongest person in the world had also created countermeasures to these other Six Great Powers and had a list made of the names of all the secret forces hidden all around the world
The names of spies their families and friends and other information is probably in Death Monarch hand. 
To many, the Book of Death is a book full of information. Some even speculated that inside the book, Death Monarch also includes ways to disable fortifications and magic formation barriers of Pandemonium and other Six Great Powers.
To the enemies of the Seven Great Powers, the book is a treasure that contain trove of information.
But for the Shadow Guards as the story goes, the only important thing for them inside that book is that Death List. 
This list of name contains the names of people that they had to kill when Death Monarch is gone. 
Then when Loki the Trickster become regent, and found out the name in that list, he was shocked
That is how the story goes.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Book fo Death....Hehehe. See you tomorrow. Dont forget to vote and leave some comments belows.


In the aftermath of apocalyptic event, a man rises above the others to lead an era. 

With threat beyond the stars, as Supreme Beings of otherworldly star system watches over as Destiny and Fate work their way, an era of Gods descended upon Earth

And in his rise, lies a terrifying secret.  Read how he rises above it all, through all the complicated love life, his determination to push through his own fate and destiny and the Will that pushes him forward.

With all of this, could the Fate that was written be overturned? And will he truly rise to the top and survive?

A great battle for the fate of the Universe began.

This is the story of Lord Shadow.

Opening the blue print, there was an icon of a book symbol. Swiping the mouse arrow on it, it named skill book. 
Clicking on it, a menu opened of an empty list. Five empty bars together and the sixth one empty on the center, all five connecting to it. Juray saw this list and thought what exactly this, will be in use for him. 

It's true he grabbed the skill book from the Warlock but, the question rises how will he be able to use it. 
While he was frozen on his seat, 
Yu-say happed his shoulder, he looked at him "it's a skill book, so what use can you use it for?"

"I don't have any idea of using however, there was an aim that I took this book from the owner" replied the player. He opened the drawer and took out the guide book of the game Minus Zero saying while swiping the pages "there's possible here could be guideline on it".

While his friend watching by his side, Juray opened a page of characters list. Going through page No: 215 he pulled opened that number direct and came to the character class : Mage.

Since he wanted to discover the mysterious, secrets and learn the character by himself, he didn't pay any interest to any of the information. He wanted to find a hint if a skill book could call a support for such class.

Turning through pages going from titles to titles like Mage class, Mage weapons, moves, types, levels etc unfortunately there was no trace of skill book for Mage.

A sudden feeling worried ness, the player caught by, perhaps what he picked might go in vain and he continued turning for several mins yet, still there was no sign of it. He looked up at the empty list, again at the book sweating in anxiety.

Suddenly, he got an idea what if he tried to go through item pages. Probably the author named Jurio who wrote this guide book for all players thoroughly with great care won't leave such easy method. 

Next, he opened the item page, turning over one page "Ah!" he broke his shut lips surprised to find on top of the page the answer he was looking for.

(Skill book: Can be used by any classes. It requires skill points, experiences points to work out. Can construct skill and Epic skill level separately. Increases skill points by 20%. Good opportunity for Wizards, Warlocks, Magus and Mages).

Aside of it several other information were written like how it creates skill and how it's useful.

In other game worlds, skill books were used to learn skills, develop skills or add extra points to skills. However, in Minus Zero all these systems worked. 

As the information was read, skill book was aside helping hint to improve the strength of attacks, give higher damages and provide the weapons of characters a higher ability to fight. 

To think the matter of skill book for a Mage, Juray analyzed that Mages has an ability to create their own skills and techniques. Aside from Wizards and Warlocks, Mage's greatest weapon were knowledge due to it they could create their defense with improving weapons and they had free hand to create whatever they were alike. 

Cecil was a Mage.

Since he was a battle type, the game system helped him to get skills, who knows what other classes he would use in that state, it could be possible that he would have to depend on himself to build up his skills, this was the first step to escape such a disaster.

Closing his book, he took the mouse on his palm, swipe it on the empty bar list, there opened the option to choose which skill level you would like to create:
Normal level skills
or 
Epic level.  

Choosing the Normal level skill a warning tag suddenly appeared,

"You can't create a Normal level skill for the Battle Mage".

In the corner there was a section called learn more. It taught more that this type of Mage is capable of achieving skills him/her self. Doesn't requires self construct. As the system of the game is supporting along their skill only for this class of Mage.

"Only?....." thought Juray realizing this part came out exactly the way he felt to stay precaution with. Prepare yourself before the consequences, was the warning Juray had to keep in mind.

Come to know a game, where you battle new unknown beast, struggle in fights against New opponents, work on your character like one self and see who shall reach the top level, your favorite fighter or your opponents, unknown to all. Apart of this a game where professional has a value. Top player level-100?
No Top player level 1! and what is it to be beyond that!
Player will realize the true worth of being higher level, above 1 the power of Minus Zero, will soon lay in our hands.

Jack made the Hunters Association his first stop after entering the capital. He submitted all his hunting quests, netting 3400 experience points and 43 hunter points. For ten numbers of quests, the experience point reward wasn't much to look at. But when Jack handed over all the trophy items he had in his possession, the girl at the counter gave him 1 gold coin and 60 silver coins. If the guild players know they could collect coins this fast by hunting, they would have done their best to pass their advance class trial in order to be able to join the Hunters Association.
Jack looked into his inventory purse and admired the coins he had. He now had a massive number of 67 gold coins! The guild players would be banging their heads onto the wall if they knew about it. He could establish a formal guild six times with this amount of coins.
"You still have something you can hand over to the association," Peniel said as she floated beside him.
"Oh? What is it?"
"The Monster Settlement Core. That could be considered as a trophy item as well."
"This?" Jack to the core out. He then passed it to the counter, "do you accept this as well?"
The girl's eyes turned wide when she saw the Settlement Core in Jack's hands. "That is a Monster Settlement Core!" She exclaimed. "Certainly! Let me have a look."
She took the core into her hands and examined it. After inspecting it to be a true Monster Settlement Core, she stored it and paid Jack another 5 gold coins. Jack was overjoyed. The coins seemed to just keep coming and coming. He would not need to worry about money for a while.
The counter girl also filled another 80 hunter points onto Jack's hunter badge as an additional reward for the core. Jack's hunter points immediately shot past the 100 points threshold, and he was promoted with Silver grade Hunter Badge.
"As the first Outworlder to become a silver grade hunter, let us bestow you with VIP status," the counter girl said. Since Jack had also gotten the VIP status from Adventurers Association in the same way, he was no longer surprised. He went ahead with the procedure.
When he thought his business was done already, the girl said, "and for being the first Outworlder to vanquish a Monster Settlement, we will bequeath you with a special reward of 1,000 hunter points."
"So much," Jack blurted out, but he gladly gave the counter girl his hunter badge to be filled with these additional points. He now had 1,123 hunter points. To become a gold grade hunter, he would need 10,000 hunter points, so he was still a long way from it. Nevertheless, he was glad to have acquired a large boost of hunter points so early.
"I can also exchange the points for items, right?" He asked.
"Sure. Would you like to view the exchange list?" The girl asked.
"Yes, please."
She opened up the interface that showed the list of items that could be exchanged. Jack browsed the list. Most items were materials, ingredients, with common and uncommon equipment, more or less similar to the list in the Adventurers Association. So Jack just scrolled it briskly to the end of the list where the exclusive exchange items were. Same as in the Adventurers Association, there were four items in the exchange list.
Recipe: Hunting Bow (expert blacksmith grade) – 90 hunter points
Recipe: Nature's Blend (expert alchemist grade) – 90 hunter points
Recipe: Well-done Steak (expert cooking grade) – 90 hunter points
Recipe: One with Nature (expert scroll-making grade) – 100 hunter points
"All are recipes?" Jack said with a little bit of disappointment in his tone. He was more proficient in Blacksmith and Cooking. He obviously won't use the bow, should he exchange for the steak recipe? He was hesitating.
"How about we take a look at the exchange list in the Silver Hunter hall?" Peniel proposed.
Jack thought it was a good idea. After all, he had over one thousand hunter points already. His points might even be sufficient to exchange for one of the exclusive items in Silver Hunter hall. He then thanked the counter girl and hurriedly made his way to the Silver Hunter hall.
When he arrived in the Silver hunter hall, he noticed that the hunting quests posted on the notice boards were mostly for monster level 20 and above, and Peniel advised that the locations of those monsters were a rather long distance away from the Capital. Apparently, he had become a silver grade hunter too early. He might need to go back to the bronze hall again later to pick up hunting quests that were more suitable for him.
Jack went to the counter and showed his Hunter Badge.
"Mister Silver Hunter, what can I do for you today?" The lady at the counter asked politely.
"I would like to take a look at the exchange list, please." Jack said.
"Certainly. Here is the list."
Jack browsed the items on the list. They were definitely better than the ones in the Bronze Hall. Most of the items were uncommon grade. The types of items were mostly the same, ingredients and materials at the half bottom, with equipment at the top half. He also found common gemstones and uncommon gemstones amongst the items on the list. But since he had not touched runecrafting yet, he did not bother with them. He also saw several rare pieces of equipment in the top ten of the list.
He kept on scrolling, he was more interested in the exclusive items on the list. After all, the regular list items would stay in the list forever, he could exchange for them anytime provided he had enough hunter points. But the exclusive list was a different matter. Once someone took the item inside, it would be gone for good. Since he was the first one to become a silver grade hunter, he needed to take advantage of it by gaining the first choice on the items under the exclusive list.
After scrolling all the way, he finally found the exclusive list. There were also only four items in the exclusive list, the same quantity as the ones in Bronze hall.
Greatsword of the Beast (rare two-handed sword) – 1000 hunter points
Swift Tracking Boots (rare boots) – 950 hunter points
Camouflage Tent (rare tool) – 980 hunter points
Technique Book: Dragon's Eye – 1100 hunter points
From the four items, he could use three. He was not interested in the Greatsword as it couldn't be fed to his Storm Breaker. The boots could be a nice replacement for his current equipped boots which were still common grade boots. While the rare Tent was also tempting. He was still using a common grade tent till this time. He could not just ask Peniel to keep watch every time he spent the night in the wilderness, could he?
The fourth item was a Technique Book, Dragon's Eye. Sounded imposing, and it was also the most expensive amongst the four. In fact, all of them were expensive, even with the Hunter points he had now, he could only exchange for one of them. But he thought it made sense, after all, the item quality was another grade compared to the Bronze hall choices.
"Hey, which one should I choose?" Jack asked Peniel who was flying around the hall. Since currently Jack was the only outworlder inside the Hunters Association, she didn't need to hide.
Peniel came by and glanced at the list. "Dragon's Eye will be the obvious choice," she said.
"Oh? Is it that good?" Jack asked.
"Let me put it this way, those other three items, when you reach Elite class, you probably will throw them away. But that Dragon's Eye skill, even Elite classes will fight to their deaths in order to get that skill."
"So good?" Jack was astounded by Peniel's words. He believed her words of course. She was already like a flying and talking encyclopedia to him, everything he did not understand he would simply ask her about it.
"All right then, if you want to spend, might as well spend big. I will take that Dragon's Eye Technique Book!" He said to the counter lady.
The lady processed his request, subtracting his hunter points then handed him back his Hunter Badge together with an ancient-looking leather book. There was an image of a dragon on the book's cover. Its eye was depicted with bright red color.
Technique Book: Dragon's Eye (Super Rare Consumable)
Grant the skill: Dragon's Eye
Restriction: Advanced class
A super rare grade! No wonder Peniel said it was the best compared to the other. Fortunately, its restriction was only for advanced class. It did not force him to choose a certain class. He still had that Body Double book that required him to choose Mage advanced class. If this skill required him to choose another different class, he would have to let go of one of them.


He was about to join the beta test on the newest VR games, Second World.

But an anomaly threw him into a world with familiar rules, a rule he usually only experienced in a game.

Now he must use his past gaming experience in this new world.

It was no longer a game, it was survival! A strive to reach the highest level possible.

Equipped with dual-class of melee and magic user, Jack was set on the path to become the strongest character in this brave new world.

Minutes later we arrived in Micheal office, his office has changed a lot, within these few days he has been here. Unlike Cuba, his desk was always in an unorganized position that sometimes I find myself thinking the table might be his bed of asininity. 

I urged Clara to sit while I stood beside her which she did. Michael was still busy with his book, " So, you two are the only ones in my class who haven't gotten a ticket yet, right? ". He said after some minutes his eyes still fixed on the book which seemed like one of Tony Robbins' books. I knew the book because my dad was a huge fan of the author of the book. 

"Well, sir we have". Clara replied sincerely. 

"Then why are your names not on my list?". Michael said, he ruffled through the pages of the book and brought out the list of all the candidates, written in a paper. His eyes darting left and right. "Because I can't see them in my list". 

"Sir... 

"She's gotten one". I said finally. "She was about to register when you walked into the class". 

"Okay... So, What about you? Are you not participating in the event?".

"Wakey wakey" Steven grinned as he pecked me on the cheeks."You look sleepy". 

"Ugh! I can't see!". I mumbled asleep. 

"That's because you are being bombarded with sun rays". He laughed as he pulled me unto him. "Now get up, before I eat you". He squeals.

"I dare you". I grinned as I peeped through my eyelids. 

"Mais oui". Came his response and I jerked slowly as a response from his teasing hands. 

"Haha... This feels good!" I laughed before running from him. 



It was cloudy the next day, as usual, Bless go through with his normal rehabilitation routine. He wasn't able to talk to Adam that morning about what happened last night with Emilia. Adam wasn't awake yet when Bless was getting ready to go to the rehabilitation centre. On the other hand, Bless wasn't able to get a good night sleep last night due to thinking about what Emilia asked him. 

When he was on his way to the rehabilitation centre, he stumbles across Maria. Politely, Bless greeted Maria with a smile. 

"Good morning Maria." 

Maria replies the same thing to Bless as they entered the elevator. 

"So how was your rehabilitation lately? Any improvement?" Maria asked as they stand beside one another. 

"It was doing great. Nothing much really changes. I'm still struggling to walk normally and still have to eat a lot to gain back the weight I lost." Bless replied. 

"Well, I hope you really do eat your food. You still look skinny," said Maria as she chuckles. 

"Hehe, I would eat even more if the food here doesn't taste sucks," Bless replied to Maria, crossing his arm together as he looks away. 

"Hey! it's not that bad once you get used to it!" 

"I know but ugh! Can't they at least put a lil bit more salt in my food? It tasted bland! super bland!" said Bless. His face shows how upset he was about how the food tasted. 

"Hahahaha, what do you expect? This is hospital food. It's not like your typical street food you can find out there that taste amazing. Now stop being a baby and just eat your food up! If you still complain about the food, I'll ask them to add more portion to your food that you hated so much" Maria replied, scaring Bless in the process. 

"Y-Yes ma'am!" 

Slowly the elevator descends, the blinking light from the floor indicator changes every second, showing them the number of floors they at as it moves. Bless realized that Maria is holding a file and he sneakily take a peek at it. He saw that the file belongs to a patient, the name written on it was Emilia Blanch. Bless suddenly asked Maria, 

"Maria, how is Emilia been doing lately?" 

Maria smirks and replied to him, "Hohoo~ aren't you always interested in Emilia lately," 

"Ah! N-No, it's nothing like that!" He's trying to deny everything that Maria speculates about him. 

"Hahaha relax Bless! You're always stiffy around me. I was just teasing you," said Maria as she giggles. 

"Hmm, about Emilia. Her mood kinda all over the place lately. You can say that she's not doing pretty good. Although she tries to cover her feeling by smiling," Maria reaction changes completely, she looks pretty worried about Emilia. 

"I see." 

Seems like Emilia is struggling with her emotions. It's understandable why she acts that way. She must be stress out about it and not to mention she doesn't have someone she can rely upon to really understand how she really feels. Maria just quietly gaze at him, sighing and said, 

"She's a good kid, I'm glad she has someone like you to care for her. She has always been by herself from the start. I know a lot is playing in her mind right now. She just doesn't have someone to share the problem with," Maria look quite down as she tells Bless about Emilia. 

"To be honest, I know about her sickness. She finally told me when we were hanging out last night on the rooftop. I just don't know how to react to it and I may have made her feel worse about it in the end," 

Maria looks over Bless, she was shocked for some reason. 

"Wow, Emilia usually never opened up about herself to others. You were the first." 

"Eh, really?" Bless was confused. 

The elevator finally reaches the floor that Maria picked. "Oh, my stop is here," 

She walks out and turns towards Bless as she stood in front of the door. Maria just smiled, 

"Bless, Emilia was never honest to herself or others. So, I hope you can help her in any way that you can. I understand what I asked you might be too much. But I can feel that you might be able to help her," 

Bless wasn't able to reply to Maria when she made that request to him. He just looks away as he grips his hand tightly while he listens to her. 

"You made it sound simple. I do wish to help her any way I could. But I don't know how to," He said to himself. 

"Anyway, Bless. What do you mean at rooftop huh?!" Maria quickly giving Bless her death glare. 

"Hiikkkk! N-Nothing! I have to go now, bye!" Bless realized he said something he shouldn't be saying and quickly he press the 'close door' button in the elevator. 

He was able to run away from Maria as the elevator door slowly close shut. He shows a sigh of relief when he safely avoids getting questions even further by Maria. 

Hours had passed as Bless spend his time in the rehabilitation centre. He was completely drenched in his sweat. As soon as he's done with his exercise, he went straight to the convenience store. Hoping to buy some snacks and drink for himself. When he arrived, he saw Adam was sitting at the table all alone while writing something. 

"Oh, it's Adam." 

Bless quickly went to the convenience store and buy himself some chips. He then approaches Adam with a bag of chips and coke in his hand. He greeted him, 

"Adam!" He tapped Adam's shoulder. 

"Wha-! Oh man, Bless!" Adam startled for a bit before greeting him back. 

"What are you doing sitting here all alone?" He asked. 

Adam just glare at him and replied, "What? I can't sit by myself if I want to?" 

"Hahaha! Relax I was joking!" 

Adam just giggled back and said, "Hahaha I'm joking too. I was bored sitting in my room. So I came here," 

"Heh, I see." 

Bless sat on the chair across Adam and handed him some chips. 

"Want some?" 

"Sure," He took a piece from the bag. At the same time, Adam was looking straight at Bless's face and said, 

"Uwahhh, What the hell is wrong with your eyes. You look like a freaking panda dude" 

"Eh?" Bless rubbed his eyes. "What you mean?" 

"You got some serious eye bag man! You didn't get enough sleep last night?" asked Adam. 

"Oh, haha... Maybe~" He looked away. 

"Hmmm... Lemme guess, was it because of Emilia?" 

Bless was frozen in his place and didn't say a word to Adam. 

"Of course it's about her." Adam took a bite of the chips in his hand. "So? How did it go yesterday?" 

Bless let out a huge sigh as he rests his forehead on the table "Yeah... Wasn't really good to begin with." He finally said it. 

"So are you gonna tell me what happened or just whine yourself there?" asked Adam. 

"Sheesh, relax. I was about to tell you. Well, what happened last night-" Bless explained the situation that he had with Emilia last night. As well as the request that Emilia made towards him. He told Adam how he felt regret for not be able to give Emilia his answer and in the end, he was pretty moody after that event and the eye bag was the end result of it. 

"Hahahaha! was that it? Man, you can be pretty dense sometimes!" said Adam. 

"You don't have to be scared if you weren't able to fulfil her request. What's important is that you give your best in helping her. Whether it will be a success or a failure, I'm sure she will be more than happy. Of all the chances you had last night, you messed it up, geez." 

"Well, easier said than done... I do want to help her as best I could, but I don't even know how or where to start!" Bless complained. 

"Get your shit together man. When or where to start, you don't have to think about it that much. I'm pretty sure you can work your way out in time." Adam quickly reaches out for his book and continue writing in it. 

"Sigh, you're right. But how can I show my face to her now when I can't even properly answer her last night. She definitely disappointed in me now." Bless mutter as he bangs his head on the table. 

"Heh, I'll be disappointed too if I were her," replied Adam, while he still scribbling up the book in his hand. 

"Ugh... You're meanie... Not even helping me to comfort myself." Bless pouted. 

"I did help you last night remember. If I don't encourage you to talk to her, we won't be having this conversation in the first place." 

"Tsk, fine..." Bless landed his cheek on the table while his eyes look towards Adam. 

On the other hand, Adam was quite focused on his book. His hand continuously scribbling in the book which made Bless curious about it. Bless grumpily stare at the book, wondering what Adam might be writing. 

He pokes the back of the book and asked, "Hey Adam. What are you doing..." 

"Hmm...?" Adam still focus on his book. 

"Adam... Oi Adam..." 

Bless was quite annoyed that even how many time he calls Adam's name, there's still no answer from him. Finally, he snatches the book off from Adam's hand and quietly stared at his face. 

"H-hey!" Adam shouted. 

"Geez, at least answer me when I call your name," He quickly looks over to Adam's book and peeks at what he's been scribbling. It was a list. Bless was quite confused, he slowly read the list out in front of Adam. 

"Save the planet, buy a set of Lego Mindstorm, kiss a girl... Pfft... the hell is this you creep" He smirked as he read it out loud while looking at Adam. 

"Oi stop reading it!" Adam's face quickly turns cherry red as he desperately trying to take his book back from Bless. 

"Hehehe... Hands off man! I'm still reading!" 

"Go to the beach, confess to Ms Maria... wait, wha-? So you have a feeling for our nurse huh~!" Bless teased him as soon he found out Adam's secrets. 

"Shut the f*ck up!! You prick! Give me back my book!!" He able to grasp his book but wasn't able to take it away from Bless since he gripped the book tightly. 

"Hahahahaha! Wait! I still haven't read everything yet!" He quickly took a glance over the book and able to see what's written at the end of the list. 

'Be good friends with my new roomie, Bless' 

'Survive' 

He releases the book when he saw those words. Adam was jolted backwards and almost fall from the chair but manage to stable himself up. Bless apologized in the end, 

"Hehe, I'm so-" when he was about to finish his word, Adam smacked his head with the book and his face fall flat on the table. 

"Don't touch my book dammit!" He kept hitting Bless with the book until he is satisfied. 

"Oh, come on! I was curious about it! Besides, you ignored me first!" Bless pouted as he angrily mutters at Adam. 

"Next time ask politely, you idiot! Don't just yank the book away from someone's hand like that!" scold Adam. 

"Tsk tsk, fine! So, what was the list all about?" 

"Sigh, you really annoying you know that right... It was a bucket list." Adam replied while showing how tired he is with Bless's attitude. 

"Bucket list?" Bless seems quite confused. 

"Are you really an idiot or just thick-headed?" replied Adam angrily. 

"Eh... You're a meanie!" 

Adam start explaining the meaning of it to Bless, 

"Bucket list, it's something people write about what they wanted to achieve and what they want to experience before they die. I just wrote it for fun, since people said it's a good way to waste your time." 

"Huh... that sounds interesting. But aren't your bucket list kinda weird and childish, pfft hahaha!" Bless start cracking up when he been reminded by what Adam wrote in the book. 

"Shut up! When you do a bucket list, it doesn't mean you have to literally achieve it! As I said, I do it for fun!" Adam literally gets annoyed by how Bless teasing him. 

While Bless was laughing at Adam non-stop, he finally comes up with an idea, 

"Wait, that's it!" He suddenly shouted.

Bless - There she is. Looking through the window with the most brightest beautiful smile on her face. "Who is she?" said Bless. My heart skipped every second when I look at her beauty. She turns around and look straight to me and I whispered "is this what u called love at first sight?"

Story of a young man named Bless, falling in love with a mysterious girl, Emilia who spends most of her days in the hospital with an unknown disease where she only has few months to live. "Help me live this life. Show me what happiness I deserve before I die." The girl told Bless the moment she saw him. The promise that has been made between them, bound with a heartbreaking journey of love and lies. Will Emilia find the happiness that she has been searching for before she died?

Zachary 
I looked at the girl before me. 
Sand colored hair, blue eyes, a slender figure and a flat chest. 
Her body seemed rigid to me though. Perhaps nervousness? 
"Zachary." I said before turning towards the stone again. 
There was a list on the stone. One specialty after another was listed. I recognized more than a handful of them. Above the list was my name, although smaller now. To the left was the word Perks and to the right was Specialties and beneath it was P: 1 S: 1. 
Beside each specialty was a number. 
'Interesting. If this works the way I think it does then...' My thoughts trailed off as I glanced through the list. 
I pressed down on one the of the specialties. 
[Would you like to purchase Familiar Summon?] 
Of course. 
I pressed the yes option that appeared. 
A grey book appeared in my hands with a flash of white light. I opened it, and with a thought the book turned into a mist that entered my body. 
I looked at my status window just to be sure. 
Name: Zachary 
Race: Half-ling (Demon, Human) 
Title: None 
Class: None 
Level: 1 
XP: 0/100 
Attribute Points: 0 
Health: 20/20 
Vitality: 1/1 
Endurance: 2 
Strength: 5 
Speed: 5 
Agility: 3 
Dexterity: 4 
Intelligence: 6 
Wisdom: 5 
Mana: 12 
Qi: 2 
Skills: None 
Perks: None 
Specialties: Familiar Summon 
Enhancements: Demonification, Humanization, Vital Boost 
Equipment: None 
'Sure enough, it's there. So, this is supposed to be some sort of shop I guess. I wonder if the next is the same.' I thought as I tapped on Perks at the top of the stone. 
The list of specialties suddenly became a list of perks. 
I glanced through the list before sliding my hand up the stone. The list also slid up. 
'So that's how this works. If this really is the world dungeon, then these... shops... should have every perk and specialty, and the next room should have enhancements. The lab is probably for experimenting, enchanting, alchemy, and inscribing scrolls. The training room should be for practicing magic and martial arts among other things, and the library should have something to do with skills. So that leaves the two empty rooms, and the first which I think is for eating and possibly gathering for discussing whatever, whenever.' I thought as I kept looking through the perks. 
My eyes landed on appraisal, making me pause. 
'Even appraisal can be learned? I thought you had to be born with it.' I thought as I looked at it. 
I tapped on appraisal and learned the skill after getting the book. 
I turned to leave, and found the girl still standing there. 
I ignored her and went to the next room.

The world dungeon. A mysterious construct. It is spoken of in myth and legend. It stands tall, reaching through the clouds above, yet none can enter.  

No one knows what lies within. It has stood quietly for generation after generation. 

But now it stirs. 

Only a hundred people can walk the dungeon. To leave it, they must conquer it.  

 

Or die trying. 




Note: Any character resemblance to actual people is coincidental, all work is original. On the off chance I figure out how to put pictures in the story, any works you see were more than likely found with a google search. If the work belongs to you let me know and I give credit/take it down. That being said I'll mark my own work.

Have fun, enjoy, don't count on regular updates (sorry, I have a wacky schedule to keep up with) and if you don't like the book, don't spam hate comments, just drop the book and go, that said, constructive criticism is appreciated.

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Book list

Pet King

The Priestess of Rodona

Warrior's Promise

Lord Shadow

Minus Zero

Second World

Ain't Your Regular Girlfriend

Lies I Wish You Forgive

Thousand Floor World Dungeon

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